This firm has 2.74
B in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 0.87, which is OK given its current industry classification.
What is the right price you would pay to acquire a share of Packaging Corp? For most investors, it would be the price that gives them a wide margin of safety to have minimal downside risk. In other words, most investors are always looking for undervalued stocks. Even if the
future performance is not entirely as expected, the loss of holding it is minimized, and the downside risk is negated. Please read more on our
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What is happening with Packaging Corp of this year
Annual and quarterly reports issued by Packaging Corp of are formal
financial statements that are published yearly and quarterly and sent to Packaging stockholders. The reports show and break down the current year's ongoing operations and discuss plans for the upcoming year. Annual reports have been a requirement from the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for businesses owned by the public since 1934.
Companies such as Packaging Corp often view their annual report as an effective marketing tool to disseminate their perspective on company
future earnings or innovations. With this in mind, many companies devote large sums of money to making their reports attractive and informative. In such instances, the annual report becomes a forum through which a company can communicate to the general public any number of topics that may or may not be directly related to the actual data published in the reports.
Packaging Corp Gross Profit
Packaging Corp Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Packaging Corp previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Packaging Corp Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Packaging Corp's
gross profit and other
fundamental indicators for more details.
A Deeper Perspective On Packaging Corp
Earning per share calculations of the firm is based on official Zacks consensus of 5 analysts regarding Packaging's future annual earnings. Given the historical accuracy of 98.26%, the future earnings per share of the company is estimated to be 5.3243 with the lowest and highest values of 4.72 and 5.9, respectively. Please note that this consensus of annual earnings estimates for Packaging Of Americ is an estimate of EPS before non-recurring items and including employee stock options expenses.
Is Packaging a risky opportunity?
Let's check the volatility. Packaging is looking slightly risky at this time. Whether you invest your money or manage your clients' funds, remember that it is easy to forget that behind Packaging (NYSE:PKG) stock is an actual business venture. So, do not let stock picking become an abstract concept by ignoring the elementary risk calculations. purchasing a share of a Packaging stock makes you a part-owner of that company.
Packaging Current Consensus
Here is the latest trade recommendation based on an ongoing consensus estimate among financial analysis covering Packaging Of Americ. The Packaging consensus assessment is calculated by taking the average estimates from all of the analysts covering Packaging
| Strong Buy | 3 | 30.0 |
| Buy | 0 | 0.0 |
| Hold | 7 | 70.0 |
| Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
| Strong Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
Some Packaging technical indicators suggest reversion
The downside deviation is down to 3.21 as of today. Packaging shows above-average downside volatility for the selected time horizon. We advise investors to inspect Packaging further and ensure that all market timing and asset allocation strategies are consistent with the estimation of Packaging future alpha.
Our Bottom Line On Packaging Of Americ
Although some other entities within the packaging & containers industry are still a little expensive, even after the recent corrections, Packaging may offer a potential longer-term growth to shareholders. On the whole, as of the 28th of July 2020, we believe that at this point, Packaging is
overvalued with
below average probability of distress within the next 2 years. Our latest buy-or-sell advice on the firm is
Strong Hold.
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